x86/fpu: Only write PKRU if it is different from current

According to Dave Hansen, WRPKRU is more expensive than RDPKRU. It has
a higher cycle cost and it's also practically a (light) speculation
barrier.

As an optimisation read the current PKRU value and only write the new
one if it is different.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: kvm ML <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
index 34897e2b52c9..0a3c4cab39db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ static inline void wrpkru(u32 pkru)
 
 static inline void __write_pkru(u32 pkru)
 {
+	/*
+	 * WRPKRU is relatively expensive compared to RDPKRU.
+	 * Avoid WRPKRU when it would not change the value.
+	 */
+	if (pkru == rdpkru())
+		return;
+
 	wrpkru(pkru);
 }